Reposted by ordinary jom @keptsimple.bsky.social · 3ha fairly new type of brazen lie is to post a lie with a link to a video that categorically disproves your lie. this was pioneered by terfs who would post like "watch me get ASSAULTED by trans radicals" and the video just shows people milling about at a protest. 401247219 1.2K
Reposted by ordinary joJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21hAsking random American Muslims to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood is like asking random American Jews to disavow Israel. They’re both tropes about dual loyalties. If you can understand why one is inappropriate, you should be able to understand why the other is, too. 721848 218
Reposted by ordinary joDr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 8hI wrote this about TikTok in February but could literally write it about Dexcom now. And also, of course, literally COERCING YOUR MEDICALLY FRAGILE USERS INTO CONSENTING TO A TOS did not exactly do much to increase trust. That last part is important. Happy to chat with journalists. :) 1184 18
Reposted by ordinary joDr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/10/2026I am a type 1 diabetic, and last night Dexcom forced me to agree to a new terms of use in order to continuing using the app and view my blood glucose data. Glad I had the foresight to "view agreements" and then copy the entire document. Because there appears to be NO WAY TO VIEW IT AGAIN. And... 28736274 736
Reposted by ordinary joAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 9hWorth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account 472085647 2.1K
Reposted by ordinary joMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18hSCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht. 1128222058010 22.2K
Reposted by ordinary jomtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10hConservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: nom nom nom gimme dat seed corn i have to eat all the seed corn bsky.app/profile/twil... 111507263 1.5K
Reposted by ordinary joM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17hMaths & Science: MANLY Humanities: WOKE & GAY British Steel jobs: MANLY Higher ed jobs: WOKE & GAY Drilling for oil: MANLY not burning the planet : WOKE & GAY Northern working class plumbers: MANLY London working class baristas: WOKE & GAY ETC!!! 415031 150
Reposted by ordinary joGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/10/2026Hard agree. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s because Meta sued the author and got a gag order that prevents her from saying a single word about her own book. Mark Zuckerberg is a threat to human rights and democracies the world over, including ours. It is vitally important you know how and why. 121157554 1.2K
Reposted by ordinary joColin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 17/10/2026couldn't get this shit out of my head and another thought keeps pressing in, which is that with these types there's a lot of "because we can't quantify stress, anxiety, panic, and even trauma on a chart, it's not real and it doesn't matter" 732055 320
Reposted by ordinary joDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 17/10/2026*Me spiral." ...This is why I've always admired his writing. He's so exact. 🥰 215842 158
Reposted by ordinary joJoshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Nobody has been more forgotten by our society than rich white dudes 3286 28
Reposted by ordinary joEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17/10/202685ºF. The closest early voting place took young, lively students 45 minutes to march to. An hour and 1/2 to get on line at the polls and turnaround to go home. Some folks aren't up to that exertion in the heat. In NYC – I walk 3 blocks to a poll. Everyone should have convenient access to voting. 4767223 767
Reposted by ordinary jokingbradentucky.bsky.social @kingbradentucky.bsky.social · 17/10/2026"It's not really enjoyable to make music" WTF? These AI people are not just lunatics but so stupid they cannot comprehend art at all. The great artworks are no different than a fast food cheeseburger. It's just a soulless object. 86112 61
Reposted by ordinary joA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/10/2026"I suppose you could say that insisting on the rights of all people is issuing a "political purity test." But this ignores the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push other people out of the tent are *also* issuing a political purity test." www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...the-reframe.comWinning the MiddleWhat makes for a purity test? What makes for a big tent? Unpacking the apparently pragmatic demand that we Speak Low about fascists to beat fascism. 71028228 1K
Reposted by ordinary joA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/10/2026"You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...the-reframe.comEventually You're Going to Have to Stand for SomethingOn accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra. 5763116 763
Reposted by ordinary joBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The turn against Turnitin in UK HE is gaining momentum, with Cambridge U the latest to cancel its contract over its proposal to use student essays to train AI. I imagine more unis will now follow. TII will surely be going into crisis management now. Good piece on it here wonkhe.com/blogs/a-supp...wonkhe.comA supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essaysSam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question 14428 44
Reposted by ordinary joa frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 17/10/2026You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene. But you absolutely can use her as a yardstick for how incredibly shit the Democrats are being here 02910 29
Reposted by ordinary joThe Anti-Christ Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 17/10/2026"I was in a mixed sex ward and was worried my mother would be bigoted to trans people in a mixed ward. The problem is trans people." The position is incoherent. Labour has a bigotry problem. 24112 41
Reposted by ordinary joThe Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026This tweet resonates with me more and more every day 114729 147
Reposted by ordinary joTauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 17/10/2026"...to the extent that there is a genius to Trump, it is in his apprehension of this reality—so very few people who matter care. When you’re president, they let you do it." Jesus, this piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates is chillingvanityfair.comHow Donald Trump Made Himself Into The Dominant American Of Our AgeThe 45th and 47th president has been called consequential, imaginative, influential—sometimes for better, mostly for worse. Ta-Nehisi Coates takes it one beat further in a bid to examine just how pivo... 1669 66
Reposted by ordinary joJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Sorry it’s just intolerable that Labour MPs can now get away with quite literally posting that trans people make them uncomfortable *because they are trans* and our expectations are so lowered that we just don’t expect any action to be taken at all. 7631128 631
Reposted by ordinary jopublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/10/2026my entire life america has treated muslim americans as second class citizens under the law, and that directly led to authoritarian government for all of us. that schumer can’t see (or doesn’t care) that’s what’s happening with ilhan omar endangers ALL OF US. this is an emergency. he must go. 437968 379
Reposted by ordinary joA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Nope. Giving a permission structure to abandon marginalized people in order to secure our perceived safety is what we are talking about—and it's quite bad, actually. But what are you worried about? Abandoning them is how you win! Enjoy all those sweet winning bigoted votes! Watch them flow in! 621324 213
Reposted by ordinary joA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/10/2026This post isn’t making a point about voting, but people with pundit-brain can’t approach any idea w/o equating it to voting, and so they respond by demanding assurances about voting—to which I say those who offer no assurances will receive no assurances. Feel a fraction of the anxiety you cause. 141186252 1.2K
Reposted by ordinary joHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/10/2026“AI boosters may say that their hostility is just fear of change. But they’re wrong. The promotion of AI music-generation software as a way of making music is an insult to musicians. Musicians are right to react to it as such.” www.ft.com/content/2c21...ft.comThe moral case for human musicA philosopher of music argues that AI music-generation software ‘is an insult to musicians’ 11783151 783
Reposted by ordinary joRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 17/10/2026I think the context makes this clip even funnier —the woman is Carolyn Swords, who was in the WNBA from 2011-2020 —the show premise is "pick a topic where you're an expert," she chose "basketball players" —Rob Lowe REPEATEDLY points out to the guy that she was in the WNBA —HE CHALLENGES HER ANYWAY 401792287 1.8K
Reposted by ordinary joJoanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 16/10/2026So here's a thing re. The NHS trans healthcare thing, loudly for the people at the back : TRANS PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO SUFFER WORSE HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES BECAUSE SOME BIGOTED CUNTS ARE MADE UNCOMFORTABLE BY THEIR EXISTENCE. That is all. You can go about your business. Move along. 6526121 526
Reposted by ordinary joElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/10/2026I don’t even know what to do with this. Online white supremacists and misogynists swatted her home, and the police threw her loved ones to the ground while she was inside until they figured out what was going on. Lucky no one died. We are so broken as a society. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...nytimes.comWhen a Social Media Mob Came for Cornell’s Jane Doe (Gift Article)After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity. 401611615 1.6K
Reposted by ordinary joCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 17/10/2026A reminder that AAUP put together a resource for how to write and submit FOIAs that you can use to see just how much money higher ed institutions are funneling towards tech companies while deepening the surveillance state.aaup.orgHow to Use FOIA to Uncover Higher Ed Partnerships and Contracts with Tech Companies2026, Taylor Fox, AAUP Legal Intern & AAUP Ad Hoc Committee on AI in Academic Professions 010668 106
ordinary jo @joord.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026Really useful thread. Just a small point of information from across the pond: QC/KC doesn't mean prosecutor. They might be hired by the prosecution or the defence. They're just senior barristers. We have an Attorney General, who is a govt minister, but otherwise the word isn't used much here. 000 0
Reposted by ordinary joCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/10/2026Okay, so @kathryntewson has discovered a set of linked, commonly controlled websites that are authoritatively giving false information on the difference between "attorney" and "lawyer," and are almost certainly AI generated. I want to talk about why AI gets this wrong. 7596196 596
Reposted by ordinary joSaraarrgh Clarke @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 17/10/2026The breathless outrage with which the Telegraph describes a policy that amounts to "Don't bully your colleagues" (with a silent "we'll do that for you") and "Don't go around trying to police who is in the ladies like some kind of bog vigilante." 39817 98
Reposted by ordinary joDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Okay, we did the jokes. Now the PSAs. 3533176 533
Reposted by ordinary joKathy Hodgson 💚🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 17/10/2026This report about East Oxford suggests that their LTN has been an overall success. bsky.app/profile/oxfo... 0175 17
Reposted by ordinary joDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Translation to English: Farage worked to suppress the most blatant expressions of racism in his movement so as to more effectively pursue a politics of substantive racial demagoguery. Classic decontamination strategy of the c21st Western far right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comJenrick claims Farage has done more to stand against racism than ‘almost anybody’Reform MP defends leader after ITV footage shows official warning Farage he is ‘protecting’ candidate over racist David Lammy comments 0236 23
Reposted by ordinary joLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Authors, if you've not signed yet, still time! 04126 41
Reposted by ordinary joChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/10/2026If these frat boys were holding up "Stop The Genocide" signs on campus instead of raping women, universities would have expelled them and banned the frats already 102784656 2.8K
Reposted by ordinary joMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I really do think that Bard is an instructive example, where the pro-perpetrator, anti-Title IX commitments of the President, Leon Botstein, served him well in ingratiating himself with members of the donor class who shared those values—like Jeffrey Epstein. 318533 185
Reposted by ordinary joNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I think the real finding from surveys like this is that a lot of self-pitying rich people don't know what "paycheck to paycheck" means. If you are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on voluntary expenditures like prep school tuition, you don't count. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...finance.yahoo.comMore than a third of Americans earning over $500,000 say they’re living paycheck to paycheck, Goldman Sachs findsNearly half of $500K-plus households pay only the minimum on their credit cards, and 80% have put off a major financial goal—more than middle earners on both counts. 321454213 1.5K
Reposted by ordinary joM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Artists and musicians used to get the train to London (now £300) to live in a squat (now banned) go on the dole and learn their craft (now sanctions if you don’t job seek) maybe do some gigs (music venues have closed as rent was too high) 14679217 679
Reposted by ordinary joMother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/10/2026 ICE’s own confiscation directive only permits officers to keep belongings for a clearly defined reason. But a new lawsuit alleges the agency is refusing to return personal items like employment authorization documents, phones, and a wedding ring. motherjones.comICE sued for refusing to return detainees' papers and propertyOne plaintiff is jobless after his work authorization was taken. The agency also won't return his wedding ring. 16361178 361
Reposted by ordinary jogeekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Labour have no right to try to claim the moral high-ground while they refuse to fix the Equality Act and create guidance like the NHS ward guidance. 16215 62
Reposted by ordinary joAbigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us. 3539261130 3.9K
Reposted by ordinary joPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up coststheguardian.comCompanies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling backRapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work 13837391118 3.7K
Reposted by ordinary joHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/10/2026The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded on October 15th, 1966 in Oakland, CA by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale 428995 289
Reposted by ordinary joGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/10/2026“The farmworkers, they’re the backbone of the area,” Mohammed said. "Mohammed plans to return to the fields to deliver more food. In the meantime, he encourages anyone who needs food but is afraid to leave home to contact him for assistance.” 0254 25
Reposted by ordinary joSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 15/10/2026Not cool. "How ChatGPT Targets Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email": www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-...404media.coHow ChatGPT Targets Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and EmailMost ChatGPT users probably don’t know you can be specifically targeted on the platform by advertisers based on your email, phone number, or unique phone identifier. 1105 10